Financial Regulation International
Awareness is the first step towards fighting human trafficking
Serona Woo
The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates 40.3 million people are in modern slavery. It means there are 5.4 victims
of modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the world. One in four victims of modern slavery are children.
1 Sadly human trafficking is “big business” with profits of roughly USD$150 billion a year for traffickers, according to the
ILO report from 2014.
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